“Operation Transformation” is a very popular TV programme that follows the lives of five people who wish to shed some weight. It is a very challenging and painful process. They are discovering that the journey is more than just about losing weight, it involves a total life change and means looking at things in a [...]
Reflection – Today’s Thoughtaa
Call and Response……..
This Sunday, the readings focus our attention on God’s call to discipleship. In the first reading, God calls the young Samuel three times, but Samuel in his innocence does not recognise God’s voice until he is guided by Eli to respond whole-heartedly to the voice of the Lord.
The passage presents two important features of God’s [...]
Baptism – What is it about?
We celebrate the baptism of the Lord today, a very significant moment on his journey. In this action of being baptized, Jesus was pointing the way for the rest of us to follow. It is a very significant moment for us too. Nowadays there is a lot of debate around this sacrament as for some [...]
Happy New Year 2012
A very happy and healthy new year to all our parishioners and all who visit this website. Times are difficult and many people are finding their lives and their finances a struggle. Hopefully, as Irish people, we can re-discover the importance of a caring community. During 2012 may all who are finding life difficult experience [...]
Christmas – A Time To Say Thanks
In this season of Christmas, we the priests of Naas, Sallins and Two Mile House, wish to extend a warm and heartfelt ‘Thank You’ to all our parishioners. We mention those who enrich our liturgy……. Musicians, Cantors and Choirs; to the Ministers of the Word and Eucharist; To the Church Stewards, the Altar Servers, Florists, [...]
24th Dec – Advent Prayer
It is not I who pray but the Spirit of God who prays in me. Indeed when God’s glory dwells in me, there is nothing too far away, nothing too painful, nothing too strange or too familiar that it cannot contain and renew by its touch. Every time I recognise the glory of God in [...]
23rd Dec – Advent Prayer
When one falls in love, life becomes suffused with new colour, new life, new energy and new hope. All this is experienced as an unexpected and unmerited gift. Some are content to revel in the gift, aware now that life is far richer and deeper than they had realised. Others experience the Giver in the [...]
22nd Dec – Advent Prayer
An old schoolteacher used to bow to her students before each class. When asked why she did this, she said, “because I don’t know what one of my students might become.” This was something similar to the respect people had for John the Baptist. This mysterious respect for John is the kind of respect I [...]
21st Dec – Advent Prayer
A shoeshine boy was plying his trade in New York’s Grand Central Station. A silver medal danced at his neck as he worked his shine cloth again and again, across a man’s shoes. “Sonny” said the man curiously, “What’s the hardware around your neck?” “It’s a medal of the Mother of Jesus,” the boy replied. [...]
20th December – Advent Prayer
An angel appeared to Mary and said; “You shall conceive and bear a Son and shall name him Jesus…” “I am the handmaid of the Lord,” said Mary, “let it be done unto me according to your word.” Lk., 1:31, 38.
Mary’s response to the angel boils down to “Thy will be done.” It is the [...]
19th December – Advent Prayer
In Matthew’s account of the birth of Jesus, Joseph takes the leading role. It might be a good idea to put aside the familiar picture of Joseph as a white-bearded old man leaning on a stick if we are to capture the human drama of his story! Marriage was arranged at the time in a [...]
18th December – Advent Prayer
You often hear people saying, ‘Christmas is for children’. Maybe they should be saying, ‘Santa is for children’. Because Christmas is definitely for adults. It is the celebration of our God sharing our humanity in all that entails. ‘God so loved the world, that he sent his only son, so that whoever believes in him [...]
17th Dec – Advent Prayer
‘The best things in life, are not things’. I heard these words spoken by a young mother who had experienced a lot of hardship and bereavement in her life. It struck a chord with me, and helped me to put some of life’s problems into perspective.
Prayer for Today
Thank you Lord for the gift of today, …
16th Dec – Advent Prayer
A man in his forties told me recently that he gave up going to mass about 10 years ago because he thought he was only going there out of habit. Now he is beginning to wonder is it also a habit to not go to Sunday mass. The mass is a community celebration of thanks to [...]
15th Dec – Advent Prayer
Yesterday someone said to me, ‘everyone I meet is in bad form’, – and many have good reason to be. But in this Advent season of hope I was reminded of something. You might like to try it. Take a blank piece of white paper and draw a large circle on it. Then put a [...]
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